Thank you to all of you participating in this conversation. It truly thrills me to be able to get our hearts out in the open together. It's good excercise if nothing else, yes?

I'm going to try to answer each of you individually because I want this to be as meaningful to each of you (and more so to myself) as possible. I think this is one of the better things we can explore together. It is my labor of love.

I'm going to seem rather persnickety about what may seem like semantic nuance, but only for the sake of narrowing our focus to what I am specifically referring to when I say, "love." So hang with me here, and don't anybody get your knickers in a twist over it, let's keep talking.

I may try to combine some responses depending on how time goes this morning. I counted them and I've got about 16 responses from 12 or 14 people. I better get busy!